Madeleine Cruise is an emerging artist who creates sensational objects and abstract images that explore emotional experience in contemporary life. Driven by a desire to make complex situations tangible, her work investigates such themes as sexuality, relationships and social status, within a personal and broader social context. In a creative process that explores material equivalents between painting and sculpture, Madeleine creates immersive sensual and tactile environments for contemplation.

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Glorious Descent

Acrylic on canvas 60 x 40cm

Monday, November 16, 2015

The Bammy Residency October 2015

This October Jacqueline Larcombe, Prince and myself were awarded the Bammy artist Residency by the Sydney based gallery Marrickville Garage. The residency was a month long stay in an old cottage in a remote part of the bush on the Hawkesbury river NSW. The property was situated on Mangrove Creek and featured a private jetty onto the water with impressive views of the landscape that was a comfortable distance from civilisation.

I had a positive experience during the
Bammy residency, as it was both a personally therapeutic and an artistically
productive time. It gave me a much needed break from my urban life
and it’s professional and social pressures, whilst providing me with
uninterrupted time and space to work on my art practice. I found the isolation
and natural beauty of the landscape cleansing and gained a renewed sense of
confidence and positivity.

I responded to the landscape whilst
visiting Mangrove Creek, making drawings and watercolours outdoors, before
working on collages and larger paintings in the studio. I find the Australian bush a captivatingly complex
subject from which to work, the beauty of the residency was that I could revisit sites and be
immersed in the space on a daily basis and as such form an intimate knowledge of the landscape over time. This relationship formed a valuable part of my residency that
enriched my painting practice. The final works that I produced operate as interconnected
psychological interiors and landscape paintings that chart the emotional
terrain of my experiences within the natural environment of Mangrove Creek.

Dripping 2015 watercolour on paper 25x15cm

Garden 2015 watercolour, crayon & pencil on paper 25x15cm

Dusk in the Garden 2015 watercolour, crayon & pencil on paper 25x15cm

Mangrove Mountain 2015 watercolour & pencil on Indian paper 15x25cm

Purple Rain 2015 watercolour & pencil on Indian paper 15x25cm

Rock Whispers 2105 Acrylic on canvas 100x110cm

Mangrove Tide 2015 Acrylic on canvas 110x100cm

What lived in the Mountain watercolour & crayon collage on paper 25x15cm

Bunyip Dance 2015 watercolour collage on paper 25x15cm

A selection of my work from the Bammy Residency are currently on display at NANA contemporary art Space Newcastle until the end of November.

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Artist Profile

Newcastle, NSW, Australia

Madeleine Cruise studied painting at the National Art School Sydney as a student of the Reg Row art Scholarship, graduating in 2009 with first class honours and the Fraser residency prize. Her continued studio practice has been supported through residencies with First Draft, The Bundanon Trust, The Banff Centre and Marrickville Garage. Madeleine has exhibited in solo and group shows in Australia and Canada and has been a finalist in the Waterhouse, Mosman and NSW Parliament en plein air art Prizes. In 2013 Madeleine co founded NANA contemporary art space in Newcastle, a not for profit art gallery that she directed for three years. Madeleine is part of public and private art collections in Australia and Canada including Artbank Australia.